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CBS and former entertainment chairman Leslie Moonves have resolved their dispute over $120 million that Moonves was set to collect as part of his exit from the company in 2018. In an SEC filing on Friday, CBS said that money, which had been held in a trust while they settled the dispute, will revert back […]

A quintet of scripted ABC series can breathe long-awaited sighs of relief. The Alphabet Net on Friday handed renewals to The Rookie, A Million Little Things and comedy trio The Conners, The Goldbergs and Home Economics. Both drama series, as well as The Conners, will be heading into their fourth seasons, while The Goldbergs will be back for Season 9 and Home Economics for Season […]

NBC unveiled a 2021-2022 fall season lineup that will feature a stack of “Law & Order” series on Thursdays — giving producer Dick Wolf two full nights of shows on the schedule — as the network courts audiences with dependable procedurals and nary a comedy until mid-season. Thursday nights this fall mark a real turn from […]

The CW is aiming to go where few broadcasters dare travel these days: Saturday nights. The netlet plans to add a two-hour Saturday primetime block to its schedule this fall, programming a full seven nights a week for the first time in its 15-year history. The CW chairman/CEO Mark Pedowitz announced the expansion on Thursday. The additional two […]

HBO has cancelled this week’s episode of Real Time With Bill Maher after the comedian tested positive for Covid-19. Maher, who is vaccinated and asymptomatic, tested positive during the premium cable network’s weekly PCR testing ahead of the show. It is a blow for the late-night show, which was set to entertain Neil deGrasse Tyson, Max Brooks and Dan […]

If you thought Kat Dennings and Andrew W.K.’s engagement was the wildest celebrity dating news you’d get today, you’ve got another thing coming. A newly single John Mulaney is reportedly dating TV star Olivia Munn, sources told People, “Page Six,” and Us Weekly. “They’re taking it slowly,” a Mulaney source told People, adding that their relationship “is very new.” The news comes three days after […]

The long-delayed “Friends” reunion special at HBO Max will finally be there for you, with the streamer announcing the official premiere date. “Friends: The Reunion” will debut on HBO Max on May 27. In addition, HBO Max debuted the first teaser trailer for the special, which can be viewed above. “Friends: The Reunion” will now debut on […]

NBC will broadcast the holiday musical event Annie Live!, with Robert Greenblatt as executive producer along with Neil Meron, who has served as executive producer on such NBC’s live musicals The Sound of Music Live! and Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert. Annie Live! will be directed by Lear deBessonet, Artistic Director for New York’s revival series Encores and creator of […]

“This Is Us” will be ending with its upcoming sixth season, TheWrap has learned. The Season 6 end to the hit family drama — which revolves around Jack and Rebecca Pearson and their kids, Randall, Kevin and Kate, aka “The Big Three,” in the past, present and future — shouldn’t come as much of a […]

Ellen DeGeneres is ending her long-running daytime talk show, Variety has confirmed. “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” will officially end after the upcoming 2021-22 season. DeGeneres has hosted the series since 2003, meaning the show will have run for 19 seasons by the time it ends. The show has been a major fixture of the daytime TV landscape throughout […]

LeVar Burton is joining “Tom Swift,” The CW’s potential spinoff to “Nancy Drew.” Well, at least his voice is. Burton will voice Tom’s A.I.-powered companion Barclay in an upcoming episode of “Nancy Drew” that is planned as a backdoor pilot for “Tom Swift.” Created by the young genius when Tom was eight years old, Barclay […]

Aubrey Plaza, Danny DeVito and Lucy DeVito, his daughter and fellow actor, are among the voice cast of “Little Demon,” an upcoming animated horror sitcom on FXX. Per the logline, the show follows a reluctant mother (Plaza) 13 years after being impregnated by Devil (Danny DeVito). She and her Antichrist daughter (Lucy DeVito) attempt to live an ordinary […]

Kat’s cat café will remain open after Fox handed freshman comedy Call Me Kat a second season. However, Darlene Hunt, who was the showrunner and exec producer of Season 1, is leaving the show and negotiations are underway for her replacement. The network said Monday that the series, which stars The Big Bang Theory’s Mayim Bialik, tied as the No. 1 new […]

CNN “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter came after his rival Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson for spreading misinformation (and sometimes, outright lies) about the coronavirus. During Sunday’s edition of “Reliable Sources,” Stelter said that Carlson is helping create an epidemic of “Foxitis” across the country. “Murdochworld’s most popular shows have popularized some dark, disturbing, damaging […]

“It was a leap of faith,” Scott Bakula says of heading to the Big Easy with wife Chelsea Field last fall. They were going to shoot an NCIS: New Orleans storyline we’d all been waiting for: the romantic reunion of Special Agent Dwayne Pride and his Washington, D.C.–based lawyer girlfriend, Rita Devereaux — who decides to move in. The start of […]

A group of more than 100 Hollywood publicity firms say they are concerned about the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s recently released plans to overhaul the organization. “We will continue to refrain from any HFPA sanctioned events, including press conferences, unless and until these issues are illuminated in detail with a firm commitment to a timeline that respects […]